Issue - meetings

Committee is asked to authorise the Group Head Neighbourhood Services to:

1.     Commence a procurement exercise via an appropriate public sector framework for the provision of temporary agency staff;

2.     Approve a maximum contract value as detailed within Appendix A;

3.     Authorise the Group Head Corporate Governance to enter contracts with the selected supplier.

Appendix A contains exempt information within the meaning of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985 and by the Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006 Paragraph 3 – Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information) and in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information because, disclosure to the public would prejudice the financial position of the authority in any lease, contract or other type of negotiation

Committee resolved to authorise the Group Head Neighbourhood Services to:

1.    Commence a procurement exercise via an appropriate public sector framework of the provision of temporary agency staff, for an initial period of two years with an option to extend for a further one year, where permitted by the framework agreement,

2.    Approve a maximum contract value as detailed with Appendix A, in accordance with the appropriate level of delegation as set out in the Spelthorne Borough Council Constitution; and

3.    Authorise the Group Head Corporate Governance to enter contracts with the selected supplier.

Councillor Williams proposed and Councillor Sexton proposed an amendment to Recommendation 1 to amend ‘an initial period of two years with an option to extend for a further one year’ to ‘an initial period ending 30 March 2027’.

It was proposed by Councillor Boughtflower and seconded by Councillor Sexton and resolved by Committee to go into a closed session so that Committee members could discuss information contained within the exempt appendix.

The meeting went into a closed session from 19.43 and returned to an open session at 19.50.

Following a debate this motion to amend the recommendations was rejected by the Committee members.

Committee resolved to authorise the Group Head Neighbourhood Services to:

1.    Commence a procurement exercise via an appropriate public sector framework of the provision of temporary agency staff, for an initial period of two years with an option to extend for a further one year, where permitted by the framework agreement,

2.    Approve a maximum contract value as detailed with Appendix A, in accordance with the appropriate level of delegation as set out in the Spelthorne Borough Council Constitution; and

3.    Authorise the Group Head Corporate Governance to enter contracts with the selected supplier.